History and Geography

The three-day symposium, sponsored by the Departments of English, History and Music, and the Women’s, Gender, & Sexualities program, on Nov. 4-6, features music, lectures, student presentations and a film screening honoring Austen’s 250th birthday and Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway” centennial.

As part of the award, Sandy Marshall will co-design and co-teach a transatlantic course pairing Elon’s “Foundations of Peace & Conflict Studies” with “Atrocities, Conflict, Human Rights,” led by Peter Manning of the University of Bath.

Associate Professor Yidi Wu in the Department of History and Geography will serve for two years in the national nonprofit’s highly competitive Public Intellectuals Program.

The journalism major turned a remote internship with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History into a transformative professional experience, diving into editorial projects and building connections across the institution.

From physics to performing arts, several new faculty members will teach, mentor, and conduct research beginning this academic year within Elon College, the College of Arts and Sciences.

Undergraduate students explored a variety of research topics during the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience presentations on July 24.

As part of the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience poster session, held July 24 in Snow Family Grand Atrium, School of Communications students presented research on sports policy, media representation, and community issues.

Elon’s Study USA program has allowed Addison Anderson to live and intern in Washington, D.C. this summer, a dream for the history and sociology double major.

Art History Professor Kirstin Ringelberg shared their research on gender, sexuality and art history at venues in New York, Chicago, and Dijon, France.

Grant Doherty '24 G'26, along with faculty members Scott Morrison and Jeff Carpenter, co-authored an article in the "Journal of Research on Technology in Education."